PReCISE Day '07, December 12th, 2007, Namur, Belgium

Keynote by François Vernadat

Prof. François Vernadat LGIPM, University of Metz, France European Commission, DIGIT, Luxemburg Enterprise Architectures: From Concepts to Applications Abstract: Enterprise Architecture (EA) is foundational for proper governance and management of modern organisations. The talk will report on the author's experience using different EA Frameworks in industry or in a large government organisation. It shows that benefits of EA can exist at the local level (e.g. business process review and assessment, reengineering or management of change) as well as at the global level (e.g. strategic planning and IT governance, core business process cartography, IT assets management or risk management). A special focus will be paid to IT alignment to business needs. It is essential that maintenance of the EA, although centralised in a single repository, relies on a decentralised organisation in which process owners, application owners, information resource managers and system managers are involved. In terms of research and development, development of such enterprise repositories is still a challenge.

Bio: François Vernadat has been a research officer first at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, in the 80's and then at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France, in the 90's. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Metz in automatic control and industrial engineering. At the end of 2001, he joined the European Commission, DG Eurostat in Luxemburg, as an administrator in the IT Directorate and is now at DG Informatics. His research work has been dealing with enterprise architectures, enterprise modelling and integration, information systems design and analysis, CIM and various aspects of industrial engineering (facility layout, performance evaluation, cost estimation, and competency modelling). He has lectured in many countries in Europe, North and Latin America, China, and North Africa. He has consulted several large and medium-sized companies in France and Canada (automotive industry, aeronautics industry, and software houses). He is the author of over 250 scientific papers in journals, conferences, and edited books. He is the author of the textbook "Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Principles and Applications", co-author of the book "Practice of Petri nets in Manufacturing" and co-editor of the book "Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering", all published by Chapman & Hall. He serves as an associate editor for Computers in Industry, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, and is on the editorial board of International Journal of Production Research and Robotics and CIM. He has served IFAC as vice-chairman of several technical committees, he is a member of IEEE and ACM, has been chairman or vice-chairman of several international conferences on industrial engineering and serves the editorial board of several scientific journals.